Seed stage companies are early-stage startups that have validated their initial concept and are building traction. These companies typically raise $500K-$3M to develop their product and acquire first customers.
Explore 24,429 recently funded seed companies with lead investors, funding amounts, and founding team data.
| Industry | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 8 | $20.4M |
| Agentic AI | 2 | $4.9M |
| Music | 1 | $7.9M |
| Animation | 1 | $8.2M |
| Hardware | 1 | $2.5M |
| Financial Services | 1 | $2.0M |
| Big Data | 1 | $2.5M |
| Credit | 1 | $6.4M |
| Civil Engineering | 1 | $4.8M |
| Compliance | 1 | $1.5M |
| City | Companies | Total Funding |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 6 | $22.1M |
| Singapore | 2 | $10.4M |
| Phoenix | 1 | $2.8M |
| London | 1 | $673K |
| Edinburgh | 1 | $3.9M |
| Kami-meguro | 1 | $8.2M |
| Joensuu | 1 | $2.5M |
| Los Altos | 1 | $375K |
| Hong Kong | 1 | $2.0M |
| São Paulo | 1 | $6.4M |
MiiHealth is a software company that offers medical assistant designed to support the physical and emotional well-being of older adults.
Safehire.ai provides AI-driven surface and dark web digital risk screening and background checks to support safer hiring and insider risk.
Surf Music is a SaaS Music A&R tool for the b2b music space supporting cross-market collaborations and sales.
Malted AI's platform enables enterprises to create custom AI solutions using distilled Large Language Models.
Agentic video editing for motion graphics and post-prod. Launch films, storytelling and new media for frontier tech co's
FLASH is an entertainment and technology startup.
LLABS deploys enterprise agents into bounded roles. They work in your systems and improve from outcomes through Causal Trajectory Learning.
SeeTrue Technologies creates robust eye-tracking solutions.
Trivas provides AI software for ecommerce analytics, cross-channel reporting, and performance insights from unified business data.
Transforming raw data into automated visual inspection.
Trust AI is a dental artificial intelligence (AI) platform.
Bayes Labs is an Asia-based predictive intelligence lab building a next-generation prediction market platform.
AI platform that forecasts schedule risk for construction projects, ranks critical activities, and quantifies mitigation impact.
Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
IORQ is reshaping business credit in Brazil by blending Quatá’s credibility with innovative embedded finance infrastructure.
Joinable Labs is a time-to-intelligence advancement platform.
AICrete is the only recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient concrete.
Dobbin is an enterprise software company that offers secure, multi-agent AI layer for businesses.
Graceview is a AI-driven platform for regulatory compliance.
inCadense offers a software platform for investment, asset and wealth management services.
Noisy Creek is a media company that publishes news and current events online.
Pittan is a health tech startup that specializes in the development of high-speed analytical equipment to use in the healthcare industry.
Vytal.ai is developing a 30-second comprehensive and quantitative evaluation of brain health, using just a smartphone.
Playhub operates an online marketplace for buying and selling game accounts, virtual items, currency, and related gaming services.
Arrivant is a game publisher building the next era of sociable online gaming communities; powered by player built real money economies.
Seed funding is typically the first significant round of institutional or angel capital a startup raises. Companies at the seed stage usually have a working product or a strong prototype and are beginning to acquire early customers. This stage bridges the gap between concept validation and achieving the traction needed for a Series A.
$500K - $5M
The actual amount varies based on market conditions, company traction, and investor appetite.
Seed funding is used to refine the product based on early customer feedback, build out the core team (typically engineering and go-to-market roles), establish initial go-to-market channels, and generate enough traction to raise a Series A within 12-18 months.
Seed-stage investors include angel investors, seed-focused venture capital firms, and accelerator programs. Notable seed-stage investors include firms like First Round Capital, Precursor Ventures, and Initialized Capital, as well as individual angels with domain expertise.
Seed-stage startups are typically evaluated on early revenue or user growth, the size and defensibility of their target market, product-market fit signals, and the strength of the founding team. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) in the low five figures or strong user engagement metrics are common benchmarks.
Based on 24,429 seed companies tracked in the VCBacked database, here is a snapshot of current funding activity at this stage.
Finding companies that have recently raised seed funding is valuable for sales teams, investors, recruiters, and service providers. Seed startups are actively spending their newly raised capital on tools, talent, and services, making them ideal prospects. VCBacked tracks 24,429 seed companies with verified founder contact information, updated regularly as new rounds are announced.
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